Joshua Weyant was sentenced Monday in Dauphin County Court to 19½ to 39½ years in prison. Brandi Weyant was sentenced to 18¾ to 37½ years.

Police acting on an anonymous tip found a 6-year-old boy and two girls, ages 4 and 5, locked inside a room at the couple’s Halifax Township home in December 2016. Prosecutors say two of the children were close to dying of malnutrition.

The Weyants were raising the children but weren’t their biological parents.

According to PennLive, Nicole Smith, a former Children and Youth Services caseworker said the children were being kept in conditions similar to a Nazi concentration camp.

The children were kept in an unheated room with no furniture and no bedding. The small children were even forced to clean up their own vomit, urine and feces.

"One child taught herself to regurgitate her food so she could eat it again" to ease her hunger pangs, Smith said.

The children were deprived of food for "being bad," which included eating an entire apple, including the core, when they were given one.

Despite depriving the children, the Weyants had an abundance of food. They fed their dogs so much that piles of rotting food was found in the couple's yard.